Global InformationSthenopis pretiosus information
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hepialidae |
| Genus: | Sthenopis |
| Species: | S. pretiosus
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| Sthenopis pretiosus (Herrich-Schäffer, 1856)
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Sthenopis pretiosus, the gold-spotted ghost moth, is a species of moth of the family Hepialidae. It was first described by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1856. It can be found in found Brazil, Venezuela and in the eastern United States[3] and south-eastern Canada.
- ^ Nielsen, Ebbe S.; Robinson, Gaden S.; Wagner, David L. (2000). "Ghost-moths of the world: a global inventory and bibliography of the Exoporia (Mnesarchaeoidea and Hepialoidea) (Lepidoptera )" (PDF). Journal of Natural History. 34 (6): 823–878. doi:10.1080/002229300299282. S2CID 86004391.
- ^ a b c Grehan, John R.; Mielke, Carlos G. C. (Summer 2016). "Sthenopis auratus (Grote, 1878), a junior and subjective synonym of Sthenopis pretiosus (Herrich-Schaffer, [1856]) (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae)" (PDF). News of the Lepidopterists' Society. 58 (2): 76–77. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
- ^ "Moth Photographers Group – Sthenopis pretiosus – 0022".